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Regulating Passion offers a compelling and creative answer to the longstanding question: how did the Revolution change American society? In this skillfully crafted narrative, Kelly A. Ryan investigates how men and women-both white and people of color-struggled to locate freedom and equality in the early republic. Regulating Passion adds a refreshingly new dimension to the literature of race and gender in Revolutionary America by viewing the fight against patriarchy through the lens of sexuality. Based on detailed archival research, Regulating Passion sparkles with fascinating stories of youthful fornicators, defiant Native Americans, and nervous founding fathers. Students and general readers alike will be impressed by this book's breathtaking scope and its bold assertions of how the American Revolution shaped the politics of race, gender, and sexuality that we recognize today. --John Gilbert McCurdy, author of Citizen Bachelors

Regulating Passion offers a compelling and creative answer to the longstanding question: how did the Revolution change American society? In this skillfully crafted narrative, Kelly A. Ryan investigates how men and women-both white and people of color-struggled to locate freedom and equality in the early republic. Regulating Passion adds a refreshingly new dimension to the literature of race and gender in Revolutionary America by viewing the fight against patriarchy through the lens of sexuality. Based on detailed archival research, Regulating Passion sparkles with fascinating stories of youthful fornicators, defiant Native Americans, and nervous founding fathers. Students and general readers alike will be impressed by this book's breathtaking scope and its bold assertions of how the American Revolution shaped the politics of race, gender, and sexuality that we recognize today. John Gilbert McCurdy, author of Citizen Bachelors

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Kelly A. Ryan is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Southeast.

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